Articles tagged "Personal productivity"

Build a second brain in Notion (with template)

While I'm still trying to make sense of my first brain, I've figured out how to build a second brain.

Why I snooze my emails

I'm at almost constant inbox zero. In part, it's because I'm good at organizing my inbox and replying promptly (and I'm modest, to boot). But it's also because I use the Gmail snooze feature to keep for-later emails out of sight and out of mind.

7 sustainability tips for office workers who want to go green

What can office workers do to make their work sustainable? I asked around to see what workers and employers are doing to go green in the digital world—here's what I learned.

Why employers should embrace quiet quitting

The framing of it makes it feel like you're getting away with something—like you've discovered the next great life hack. It's no wonder it's become the buzzword-du-jour.

Morning pages: Why I write 3 uncensored pages every morning

Morning pages are brain dumps: three pages straight, first thing in the morning. It's stream-of-consciousness writing.

How to be clever

Cleverness is not a measure of your intelligence. It's your ability to see the world in a new way, and relate that to others.

How to build your own Slack bot

Slackbots are handy robot assistants that hang out in Slack, wait for commands, then find or create the thing you need. You can build a Slackbot right now, in just a few minutes, without any code.

Work how you want to: How to challenge outdated workplace norms

In a lot of ways, we're still working like it's 2019. We're clinging to old work norms that, even in the before times, were already outdated.

Some tasks belong on your calendar, not your to-do list

I'm guessing there's some psychological or economic phenomenon that explains this (commitment device comes to mind), but here's why putting some tasks on my calendar works for me.

How to use Runkeeper for vacation planning

Traveling with young children is a marathon, not a sprint, so for our recent trip to Paris, we trained like athletes using my favorite fitness app, Runkeeper.